9 thoughts on “ The Road ”

1. Nov 25,  · Directed by John Hillcoat. With Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall. In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an /10(K).

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2. Nov 25,  · "The Road" is a post-apocalyptic dramatic thriller about a father and his son walking alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It 73%.

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3. Mar 28,  · Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth/5(K).

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4. Sep 26,  · The Road is unsteady and repetitive--now aping Melville, now Hemingway--but it is less a seamless blend than a reanimated corpse: sewn together from dead parts into a lumbering, incongruous whole, then jolted to ignoble half-life by McCarthy’s grand reputation with Hollywood Filmmakers and incestuous award committees.4/5(K).

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5. The novel begins with the man and boy in the woods, the boy asleep, as the two of them are making their journey along the road. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world, date and place unnamed, though the reader can assume it's somewhere in what was the United States because the man tells the boy that they're walking the "state roads.".

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6. Jan 30,  · Synopsis of 'The Road' A nameless man and his son trek to the coast in search of food, shelter, and some sign of life. Encounters with other humans are devastating affairs of cruelty, savagery, or despair. Even in a seemingly hopeless struggle for his .

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8. May 25,  · A masterpiece adventure, The Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of – a future in which a /5(K).

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9. The Road Cormac McCarthy’s tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi.

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